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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcasts
represents morning show. I'm at the gold Mic today. That's right,
it's just the two of us, Bethany, and that's Brody,
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and everyone else has a meeting or stuff to you.
And here's the thing though, um, if you stand at
the gold Mic, you're supposed to introduce yourself. Sorry, sorry,
it's a rule. It's actually scratched here in the microphone.
All right to welcome to the fifteen minute morning Show'm
David Brody Felstra in the Morning Show. Blah blah blah,
and that's Bethany. So I would say about a year ago,
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nobody was here to do the podcast but us, and
we did a podcast, and I think one of the
things we talked about was you never want to die
in a plane crash or an elevator with a celebrity,
so that because then it'll be like, oh uh, Rob
Thomas for Matchbox twenty died and and other people and
other people, right, So you always want to be the
biggest celebrity on the plane you're on. And in case
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you're wondering, why did he pick Rob Thomas of all
the celebrities, Rob Thomas isn't in the public eye right now.
It's because I was on an elevator Rob Thomas and
Matchbox twenty and I said, Wow, if this thing goes down,
no one's gonna know. And that's where I started thinking.
And then I was on the OLEV with the Google
Dolls ones, and I used to ride the elevator with
a lot of eighties and nineties pop rock bands. I
don't know if I would be able to pick the
goog Dolls out of a lineup right now, because I
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could pick them out the way they looked back in
the day, but I don't know how they look now. Um,
you still have the same haircut pretty much. Yeah, then
I do have to admit something. So I just had
a giant sugar free red Bull because I am very
tired and I have kind of a long day to day.
I'm not sure how I'm going to get through it,
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and I needed the energy and for me, red Bull
is like the break glass in case of emergency drink um.
But Danielle gets very upset with me and I drink
them because she heard or read an article about how
some people will just have heart attacks and die if
they drink this beverage. Okay, but Daniel went home early today?
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Is that while you grabbed it? So Daniel went home
at eight thirty because she had some family stuff she
had to take care of it. So I brought in
a sugar free red bull, hid it in the fridge,
and as soon as Daniel left, like literally she left
at eight thirty. As she was walking out, I was
ding ding ding ding tip doing to the back fridge
and took the sugar free red bull and brought it
out and chugged it. How would it look if you
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had a heart attack and she would not be here
and she'd feel like she wasn't here to stop you. Oh,
she'd be livid, but she'd also be happy that she
was right. Yea, yeah, No, there's definitely that she would.
I mean it would be a told I told you
so kind of wake moment, like she would come to
my open casket where I look amazing, and she'd look
at you and God that you should be like I
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miss you, but I told you. Now, this is a podcast,
you can't see what's going on in the room. But
when you said a really large sugar re red bull,
you actually put your hand about two feet above the
counter to show me that it was large. But I'm wondering,
was it really two feet tall? It was, I may
have been exaggerating. You just got higher. It's two and
a half. It's the kind so the red bulls come in,
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like the teeny cans, which are sort of the size
of like the tomato juice cans on the plane, right,
or when you did like, um, the what's the raised
in elementary school where you did like the you had
to hand off the baton the like a real a baton.
So I had the next one up. I had like
the kind that you can't fully fit your hand around it,
like the new Diet Coke cans. Yeah, but larger like
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the Arizona iced tea can. Yes, but a little smaller
like the thing that would be smaller than the Arizona
iced tea cam but larger than Diet Coke can. That one,
that one, that one, it's like big enough, big enough
to get the job done and make you feel like
you're indulging, but small enough that you're probably not gonna
have a heart attack anyway. So I feel great, but
I'm going to crash soon, and uh, you probably won't
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be around to see the crash because we have left work. Yeah.
I have three days, two official days left of work. Yeah,
so you have. So I'm sure if you're hearing this,
you know that Bethany's last day is Friday, the I
have to go to Monday, and the count three days backwards,
so that's you. You were listening in on me counting.
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I did not use fingers. I have to say that
the worst part of it so far has been when
I told you, Brodie, when you found out I you know,
when you you hear the phrase someone's face fell, like
your face fell, and then I was going to cry,
and like I was fine until then. But everybody, if
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you're you know, as you listen, you have the one
person at work that's your work husband or work wife
or the person who like gets you. Brodie, you're the
one who gets me. So let's change the subject so
that I don't cry. Okay, So just to recap briefly,
I first, when you told me, I thought you were joking.
I thought it was it was a phone tap because
you said, I just want to let you know I'm
leaving the show, and I thought for the day because
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it was like twelve thirty and you usually go around
twelve thirty, and I'm like, oh, you're leaving the show
for the day. And then you said again and I no, no, no, no, no,
because you should have because truly, my work husband, my
work wife, you would have said what do you think
then ignored what I said, but still asked me what
I thought of it. But I think you knew what
I thought of it and didn't tell me because you
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knew I would try to talk you out of it. Yeah,
and now it's too late. You're on the plane, like
you you're on the roller coaster at the top of
the hill, and you can't ask the the the high
school kid who's working at the Amuzement park for the summer, Hey, Jimmy,
can you please stop the rod? Because he's like, I'm
not to stop the rod. I just sit in the chair.
And also he's a little drunk. He's a little drunk,
and he's getting paid, Like, I don't know what that is.
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Who's fun Nate's phones going off with Nates and should
I girlfriend doesn't. Oh, it's so no because it doesn't
have a name. So it's like new phone. Who it is?
It's just a name, it's just a number about the
number and see people can call it and find out. Okay,
so here's the number, let us know who it was.
But yeah, so this everything is is in motion. There's
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nothing to stop it. And you know, it's uh, it's
a it's a thing. It's it's I'm in shock right now.
It is when you make a big life decision and
it doesn't really seem real. So I think it's going
to seem real about Tuesday of next week, and that's
when you will uh feel the panic radiating from downtown
New York. So I did two things when you told me.
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I went home and I google image you, which I
made you do, And I thought it was a good
experiment for me because when you google image someone, if
they have a lot of pictures online as you do,
as big shot celebrity as we are, you know, quote unquote,
there are pictures of you before you worked here. And
I showed you the picture that I had shown Elvis.
I'm like, this girl in the blue dress is one
of my first head shots. I think it was my
first head shot in color. Yeah. So when I so,
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I was trying The story is old, but I tried
to find you because you had left your last radio
job and I had known who you are and I
liked your work, and you would gone and you had
a radio name onlike now you were you were Lena's
Fencing because you were in Minnesota. They're like, let's give
her a Nordic name, like this is gonna be funny.
And so I could not find Lena's Fencing. So I
found out and found out, and people knew when I
emailed like a hundred people. By the way, have all
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those emails if you ever want to see them, let
me trying to track you down. And so I finally
found you. And when I found your images, there was
that one head shot in the blue dress. Will you
look like the most innocent farm girl ever? I'm wearing
a blue dress? From forever? And then is a gallery
of what looks to be pre wedding pictures of you
and your then boyfriend in like romantic, like fuzzy lens
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pictures like to make it look like you're gonna mount
them on the wall, like in eight by tens, like
really fancy pictures and so, uh, well, that guy's out
of the picture, but you could probably crop him out.
They're really nice pictures. They're great. That was when we
were doing a long distance relationship, and so I went
to visit him in Texas at the time, and he
was like, you know what, let's have fun. Let's do
a photo shoot. And everyone thought we were engaged, but
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really we were just having fun in the photo suit.
So I did that. I Google image you and then
to kind of like just remind myself of you over
the years and the different events you've been at and whatever.
You know. Second be depressed, And then I went back
and looked at all the emails I had sent you,
and it was it will be almost ten years. It
will be ten years later this year that I sent
you with the first email in two thousand nine where
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I said, Hey, um, I executive producer of in the
Morning Show. One of my jobs is to find talent.
I think you're really talented. I really enjoy your work.
Blah blah blah blah blah, and to this day. So
you wrote back something and you explained why you wrote it.
But years later, so this was two nine, it was
three years before you actually started here. I made contact
with you to keep you in my files because one
of my jobs defined talent for radio stations around the company.
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And you wrote back, oh, my god. Thanks. I don't
really know what I'm doing, but but okay, And you
had no idea that I was sort of like just
laying the groundwork for maybe, you know, wanting you to
be a part of our show someday. No, if I
just thought it was a nice email, looked at this
sweet boy sending me an emails so nice, and you're like,
I don't really know what I'm doing. And here we
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are ten years later, and you've been on this show
five and a half years, arguably one of the biggest
pop culture morning shows in the history of radio. I'm
saying that very humbly, and I still to this day
think if you were interviewed, you'd say, I still don't
know what I'm doing exactly freaking clue. People tell me
how do I get into radio, and I'm like, I
don't know. I don't know how to get into radio
because I don't know how I got here. So here,
so speaking how you got in radio? Somebody um texted
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in this morning and I thought it was a dumb suggestion.
They said, oh, you should have a contest to see
who replaces Bethany, and I said, so, I wrote back,
and I said, politely well, that's kind of weird. Would
you have a contest at your job to see who
becomes your boss? Would like the New England Patriots have
a contest to see replaces Tom Brady. It's like, it's
a job like any other. You you have to be qualified,
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and you have to earn it and have experience and
a resume and all. And then I thought, wait a minute,
bethany how did you get the job in Minnesota? Okay? Okay,
So I just applied no experience. However, the difference is
that I had all of that. I had training. I
just didn't have training in radio, but I had training
in performance and I had training an improv comedy, and
so that's what my skill set was. So there was
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training involved, just not like pro tools training. Right. You
weren't like somebody who said, oh, people tell me I'm funny,
I should be on your show, right, No, because I've
gotten a lot of that in the past two days.
And that's great that they love to show that much,
But you short of one. I I I I went
in and I interviewed an audition. I mean there was
it was a four hour live on air audition, um
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and I did it four times. I auditioned for them,
and uh, but there were other people on the air
auditioning right, um on different days, different days. Yeah, yeah,
they were like rotating people. But there were people they
had flown in from around the country who were radio people. Um.
But yeah, I got the job just because I had
been training in in performance comedy. And my boss said,
you know what, we need to hire more people who
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do improv and fewer people who have broadcast training, because
in a way, you come at it differently, you come
at it from a different perspective. But but but radio
is one of those jobs where it seems like it's
just you come in and you sit down and talk.
But as soon as we interview somebody who isn't media
trained or doesn't have you realize how scary it is
to sit in front of a micro And I think
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it's a compliment to this show that people listen and say, oh,
I could totally sit in with them. They sound like
my friends, Because that's what we hope for, for sure,
And there are a lot of listeners who could sit
in and be amazing at it, no doubt. It's just
you still have to like go through the process and
apply and and put a demo together. And you know,
you can't just send notes of friends you work with
and say, oh my god, I'm the funniest person at
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the accounting firm, because you know, I used to work
in a restaurant in Brooklyn. It was called Rolling Roaster,
Famous Famous Brooklyn, So back many years ago, before I
was in radio, before I even did comedy professionally, I
was just what I thought was a funny guy at work.
And my friend Vinnie said to me when I was
talking about maybe someday doing comedy, he said, you know what,
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you're Rolling Roast a funny but you know, like you're
not a funny me. Yeah, you're like funny for here,
like compared to us, you're funny, but you're not like,
no one's gonna pay you to be funny. So f you,
I love you, Ben, But you know, so everyone everyone
is told, you know, like it's like when you watch
American Idol and then and then people go all my
friends tell me I'm a singer, and then they go
on the audition and they're like, oh no, they But
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every once in a while there's the person, like Kelly
Clarkson was a waitress. Absolutely there is the person who
is like, Listen, I was working in retail when I
ended up here. I was managing a retail store in
a mall. Yeah, I mean I did improv. I trained
in comedy and improv, and I had some background in performance,
but not radio. Yeah exactly. And so look, Garrett's here, Garrett,
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Welcome to the Bethany and Brody Podcast. I'm sorry, you
know what she's leaving. It's Brody and Bethany. By the way,
motion detected by my pet camera. Let's see what's going
on in my apartment. Oh, Garrett, I'm sorry, but here
is the funny thing. Um. So, when I was in college,
I was a theater major and in my career prep
class um part of the it was last year as
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a theater major, you were a senior. You took career
prep and we had different days where it introduced you
to different industries where you could use your performance skills.
So you would go to obviously a theater, movies, whatever.
Then we went to a radio station to kind of
show us what the radio world was like as an
option for your career. That was the day that my
car got broken into and I couldn't go to that class.
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So you would like the people who went that day
got to put together a demo and got to see
what a radio station looked like. I missed that day,
and that day ended up being the next ten years
of my career. But I missed it. My car got
broken into And how many of those people are actually
in Radio zero or did Radio zero? I think I
don't think any of them are even in theater anymore.
But um, but it's interesting. It's the world takes you
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in weird places. Man. You just gotta I just gotta
go along for the ride. Karen, how did you end
up in radio? I mean, I know the story, but
why don't you tell it quickly? I went to one
of our shows, our concerts at Madison Square Garden. At
the time, we didn't have cell phone cameras yet, so
we had those like disposable Kodak cameras. Took a picture
with Elvis. It was a little unflattering. I ended up
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running into him about six months later. He said, please
get rid of that, um, And I did. And I said, oh,
by the way, I love to become an intern and
goes get some credit, and uh, that's what I did. Yeah,
I mean, I think if you're looking to get into
radio or quite literally anything you are passionate about, do it.
There's a way, there's a way. People are like, there's
no way to get into radio. I mean, I would
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recommend you go to school for it, because school leads
to an internship, which leads to you know, connecting and
networking and that kind of thing, and that is like
the most direct route. I would not recommend, you know,
working at a bank and then just taking a shot
at it, because that's certainly not There's only one Dave
Brody in the world. Ye special man, damn music. That
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means we're down to two podcasts. In the morning show,
Betty's gonna make an appearance on The Boys fifteen Minute
Morning Show.